World's first Solar powered cell phone

HiTech Wealth telecommunications has just begun selling the S116, the worlds first commercial solar powered cell phone and the specs are pretty impressive. The cellphone currently is only available in China.

The solar panels trickle-charge the battery in any amount of light, including indoors (or even by candlelight), and the battery life is 2.5 times longer than it would be without the panels. An hour of direct sunlight will give users 40 extra minutes of talk time. The phone also features a 1.3 mpx camera, and an MP3 player.

With a steep price tag of $510, it is to be wondered if there is a large enough market of dedicated green geeks who will buy this phone. However, we will expect that in the months to come more phones such as these may hit the market bringing the average price of these phones down to a more acceptable level.